Our thanks to William Trousdale, who permitted FIBIS to create this searchable database of the A-Z name index found in his book, The British in Afghanistan, vol I.
Below is a list of the most frequently used abbreviations and acronyms.
Surname
Briggs
First Names
William Hamilton
Rank
Surg
Regiment / Department
2nd Battn 9th (East Norfolk) Regt
Medal Rolls / Victoria Cross
MR7 [2 refs]
Source abbrevs
SH243 / HAAL79 / HAAL80 / HAAL81 / HAAL82
Original Text from book
Briggs, Surg. William Hamilton, Staff, 2nd Battn. 9th (East Norfolk) Regt., Army Medica1 Department (Bengal) MR7 (2 refs.) engaged in Khyber Pass 29 Nov. 4 Dec. 1878; doing duty Base Hospital Kurram Valley Field Force; "Crossed frontier 19 Sept. to 3 Dec. 1879," SH243, HAAL:79, HAAL:80, HAAL:81, HAAL:82
Systematic Compilation of Officers, Other Ranks, Civil Officials, and Other Individuals Present in Afghanistan during The Second Afghan War. Annotated with references to military service, diaries, memoirs, biographies and photographs.
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